x86: add NOPL as a synthetic CPU feature bit
authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:39:32 +0000 (17:39 -0700)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Fri, 5 Sep 2008 23:13:52 +0000 (16:13 -0700)
The long noops ("NOPL") are supposed to be detected by family >= 6.
Unfortunately, several non-Intel x86 implementations, both hardware
and software, don't obey this dictum.  Instead, probe for NOPL
directly by executing a NOPL instruction and see if we get #UD.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

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